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(A) Appeal from denial of permit. Appeal may be taken to the Sign Board of Appeals from the Administrator's denial of a sign permit.
(B) Appeal from failure of Administrator to grant permit within 30 days. The Administrator's failure to either formally grant or deny a sign application within 30 days of the date an application meeting the requirements of this chapter is filed shall be grounds for appeal to the Sign Board of Appeals, under the terms of §§ 157.135 through 157.148.
(Ord. 81-0-8, passed 4-21-81)
Whenever there is a change in the sign user, owner, or owner of the property on which the sign is located, the new sign user, owner, or new property owner shall forthwith notify the Administrator of the change. No new sign permit is required, unless the sign is altered or relocated.
(Ord. 81-0-8, passed 4-21-81) Penalty, see § 157.999
The person erecting, altering, or relocating a sign shall notify the Administrator on completion of the work for which permits are required.
(A) Inspections. All free-standing signs shall be subject to a footing inspection and all signs to a final electrical inspection by the Administrator.
(B) Sign permit renewal and certification.
(1) All signs erected shall be inspected every two years to determine that the sign has been maintained in such a manner as to ensure that the sign is in a safely maintained condition as to the electrical, structural, and material specifications of this chapter, and shall be tagged to so signify.
(2) Any sign for which the two-year inspection permit has not been secured and the sign duly tagged with date of the appropriate month shall be removed at the owner's expense after 30 days from written notification. The written notification shall come from the Administrator.
(3) Fees for the two-year inspection permit shall be one-half of the original application fee.
(4) All signs shall bear a two by four inch label provided by the Administrator which identifies the permit number under which the sign was constructed. These labels shall be different color for alternate years and shall indicate month and year of issue in one-inch letters.
(5) The biannual tag for the certification that the sign is in a safe condition as to its material, electrical and structural application shall be issued in two alternative methods, a licensed sign company shall duly certify and file with the city that the sign meets as nearly as possible all of the structural, electrical, and material specifications set out in this chapter or the laws or regulations of the city, or alternatively, the city shall send out an inspector and the inspector shall verify that the sign is in a safe condition with respect to its physical characteristics. The Administrator shall charge a rate of $10 an hour for such inspection of signs. The minimum fee shall be $10.
(C) Maintenance. Every sign in the city, including but not limited to those signs for which permits or for which no permits or permit fees are required, shall be maintained in good structural condition at all times. All signs, including those exempted, shall be kept neatly painted, including all metal parts and supports by which these conditions are deteriorating. The Administrator shall inspect and have the authority to order the painting, repair, alteration, or removal of signs which become dilapidated or are abandoned, or which constitute physical hazard to the public safety.
(D) Signs declared unlawful. The Administrator may declare any sign unlawful if it endangers public safety by reasons of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, or abandonment. Any such declaration shall state the reasons of the Administrator for stating that the sign constitutes a safety hazard to the general public. Any sign owned, kept, displayed, or maintained by any person within the city, the ownership keeping a display which is unlawful pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, is declared to be in violation of this chapter. The Administrator may declare any such sign to be unlawful, and such declaration shall state in writing the reason or reasons why such sign and the keeping, owning, maintenance, construction, and display or operation thereof, is unlawful under the terms of this chapter.
(Ord. 81-0-8, passed 4-21-81) Penalty, see § 157.999
SIGNS IN ZONING DISTRICTS
Transitional, D-l, D-2, and D-3 Zoning Districts. Within any residential zone, signs or nameplates are permitted as follows:
(A) For each single-family home or duplex house, one nameplate not exceeding a combined area of two square feet for each occupancy. The nameplate shall not be subject to the permit requirements of this chapter.
(B) For multiple family uses, rooming and boarding houses, one identification sign for each developed parcel, not exceeding 12 square feet in area.
(C) Identification signs, bulletin boards, and other similar structures for governmental agencies which may be regulated by the city are subject to approval thereof by the Administrator.
(D) All signs shall be placed flat against a building or designed as part of an architectural feature thereof except that signs may be detached if they do not exceed a height of three feet nor project into any required building setback area.
(E) No height limit is specified for signs placed flat against or painted on the wall of a building or for other attached signs provided all other provisions of this section are complied with.
(Ord. 81-0-8, passed 4-21-81; Am. Ord. 81-0-21, passed 6-22-81)
B-2 Zoning District. Within the Commercial Building Zone, signs are permitted as follows:
(A) One identification sign and one bulletin board for each developed parcel not to exceed a total of 32 square feet in area for all displays. All signs shall be placed flat against a building or designed as part of an architectural feature thereof.
(B) One ground sign for each occupancy is permitted for each premises having frontage on a public right-of-way. Where a premises fronts on more than one public right-of-way, or street, excluding alleys and serviceways, the provisions of this section shall apply to each frontage.
(C) No height limit is specified for signs placed flat against the wall of a building or for other attached signs provided all other provisions of this chapter are complied with.
(D) A ground sign pursuant to this section shall not exceed three feet in height.
(Ord. 81-0-8, passed 4-21-81; Am. Ord. 81-0-30, passed 10-26-81; Am. Ord. 2009-O-6, passed 4-27-09)
B-1 Zoning District. Within the Shopping Center and Highway Commercial Zones, signs are permitted as follows:
(A) One free-standing sign indicating only the name and nature of the occupancy for each developed parcel not to exceed one square foot of sign area for each lineal foot of street frontage abutting the developed portion of the parcel, provided that:
(1) Where a developed parcel has in excess of 300 feet of street frontage, one additional free-standing sign may be erected for each additional 300 feet of street frontage in excess of the first 300 feet of street frontage abutting the developed portion of that parcel. (see Figure l).
(2) Where a developed parcel is permitted to have more than one free-standing sign under these regulations, the distance between said free-standing signs on each parcel shall be not less than 300 feet.
(B) No free-standing sign shall be located nearer than five feet to an interior property line. (Figure 2).
(C) One wall or facia sign indicating only the name and nature of the occupancy, for each occupancy within the developed parcel. The sign shall not exceed a total area of three square feet of copy for each linear foot of building occupancy or that area of copy permitted in § 157.042, whichever is the lesser. If such occupancy is on a corner, one wall sign will be permitted for each face. If the building includes a canopy, each tenant will be permitted one under canopy sign in conformity with § 157.045.
(D) No free-standing sign shall exceed the height or area established by Table 1, § 157.040. No height limit is specified for signs placed flat against the wall of a building, painted on the wall of a building or for other attached signs provided all other provisions of this chapter are complied with.
(E) With the exception of a free- standing sign, a sign may be located within or project into a required front or street sideyard setback area, if the setback area exceeds five feet. However, no sign may project into or over an abutting public right-of-way except as otherwise provided for in this chapter.
(Ord. 81-0-8, passed 4-21-81; Am. Ord. 81-0-21, passed 6-22-81; Am. Ord. 81-0-30, passed 10-26-81) Penalty, see § 157.999
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